Bricks Without Straw

, January

ILAS

d relieve me, but it makes no difference. They apportion the levy upon the number of slaves. I shall have to furnish more pretty soon. The trouble is to know who to send. I am afraid every devil of them will run away, but have concluded that if I send Nimbus as a sort of headman of the gang, he may be abl

nterview with his master. The latter's wishes were explained, and

willing

ter, ennyhow,

always been a good maste

ans

een kind to

War' gib me tw

't you have done that to a nigger that c

I would,

emember that against me now. Besides, if you are not willing to do this I

ing "sold South." He saw his advantage in the flush of apprehension which, before h

ase! Don't do dat er wid Nimbus! Mind n

I know you don't w

on't, Mahs'r

a hundred dollars when you come back, if you'll just keep those other fool-niggers from trying-mind' I say trying-to run away and so getting shot. There's no such thing as getting to the Ya

, I do the best I

ght," said

him a Confederate bill of that denomin

ts went off upon the train to work for the Confederacy. However, he had done all he

ifted the flap of a Federal officer's tent upon one of the coast islands,

ry boy,

that none of the colored men who had been upon the island any length of time w

ou come from

nlan'," was the

d you g

in a

n a

ose

did you

try-Horsfo

wn here?" "Ben wukki

ckens y

s,

ou get a b

uk it-d

dy wit

Mah

ss the Sound alone

' fru' de swamp

ughed the officer, gl

you come

'-ka

be worse off with the Yank

s,

you beli

no,

you wan

yth

t the

I kin

s your

mbu

d name-ha! h

in' e

hat was your old

-Potem

ours, ain't it-your s

not, M

Why

s name ain't Ni

be something in that; but a soldier must have

all the same. No Gawge Nimbus, nor ennything Nimbus, nor Nimbus e

ne of the quota which the town of Great Barringham, in the valley of the Housatuck, was required to furnish to complete the pending call for troops to put down rebellion. By virtue of this fact, the said George Nimbus became entitled to the sum of four hundred dollars boun

otic citizen of Great Barringham, who served his country by proxy, in the person of said contraband, faithfully and well until the end of the war, when the